BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL EXTENSION
Monday, April 21st, 2025
Branden Lee Roth puts his own engaging stamp on the title role of Open Fist Theatre Company’s Bat Boy: The Musical, his fortuitous arrival enabling the wild, weird, and wacky L.A.-born, off-Broadway-bred crowd-pleaser to extend its run at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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CORKTOWN ’39
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
Tensions reach a breaking point when an Irish-American family finds itself knee-deep in an assassination plot in John Fazakerley’s slow-boiling thriller Corktown ‘39, another sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Company World Premiere.
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HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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THE WEDDING SINGER
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
There may be less than half the number of performers lighting up the stage as was the case on Broadway back in 2006, but Wisteria Theater’s stripped-down take on The Wedding Singer loses not one iota of entertainment value where the movie romcom turned Broadway musical is concerned.
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RABBIT HOLE
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
Kudos to director Cate Caplin and an all-around superb Los Angeles-based cast for delivering so powerful a reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, you’d have sworn you were watching a fully-staged production had it not been for the scripts which cast members had in hand in the latest entry in the Interact Theatre Company reading series held monthly at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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MEMORY LANE IS A DESERT ROAD
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
A daughter sifts through her war correspondent father’s photos to better understand his life and her own in Nabra Nelson and Michael B. Nelson’s autobiographical gem Memory Lane Is A Desert Road, a World Premiere drama strikingly staged and terrifically performed by the young artists of Eight Ball Theatre.
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INTO THE WOODS
Monday, March 31st, 2025
Over a dozen star turns make Musical Theatre West’s staging of a Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine classic that rarity among Into The Woods revivals, a big-stage, big-talent triumph that captures the magic of the 1987 Broadway original while treating audiences to inspired new interpretations of the fairytale musical’s now iconic roles.
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